FORGOTTEN WARS

Out of sight out of mind. The forgotten wars. The Korean civil war for which The USA intervened (as a police action according to Harry Truman) cost 36,000 lives, yet it ended with a cease fire with the country still divided along the 38th parallel.. General

MacArthur was relived of command when he insisted upon pursuing the enemy across the 38th parallel. General Eisenhower was elected president by stating he would end the war. He was a man of truth and integrity,

Candidate Obama stated that the first thing he would do[as president] would be

to bring the troops home from Iraq and end the war. But, we are dreadfully sorry to say that he was and is a liar .

According to "The Forgotten War" by Lawrence M. Vance, www.LewRockwell.com 3/20/2010,

"Now, on the seventh anniversary of the unconstitutional, immoral, aggressive, unjust, unnecessary, manufactured, manipulated, and senseless war that is the war in Iraq, the escalation of the war in Afghanistan has eclipsed any mention of the ongoing war in Iraq. And this in spite of the fact that there are still 130,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.

When I wrote about the Iraq war on its third anniversary, 2,317 American soldiers had died for a lie. On the fourth anniversary, that number had risen to 3,218. On the fifth, it was up to 3,992. Last year, on the sixth anniversary of the war, the number of dead American soldiers rose to 4,259. Currently, the death toll is at 4,385, with 157 of those deaths since Obama became the new commander in chief.

But, it is said, look how the number of deaths per year has fallen. Agreed. But that is no consolation to the father, mother, wife, or child of the soldiers who died in vain and for a lie yesterday, last week, or last month.

Only the grossly naïve still think that those fighting and dying in Iraq are doing so for our freedoms or to keep us safe from terrorism. The truth is rather that since the war on terrorism began our freedoms have steadily deteriorated and we have created more terrorists.

Before the United States invaded Iraq, not one American had been killed by an Iraqi since the previous time we invaded that country. But no U.S. soldier had to die in either war against Iraq. Bringing "democracy" to Iraq, ridding the country of Saddam Hussein, and destroying Iraq’s weapons of war were not worth the life of one American. They were not worth the shedding of one drop of American blood.

But that’s not all. No Iraqi soldiers had to die, no Iraqi civilians had to die, and no Iraqi children had to die between the wars because of brutal U.S. sanctions.

Yet, Americans who have lamented the senseless deaths of American soldiers, not to mention the deaths of countless numbers of Iraqis, and denounced this war from the beginning are the ones who have been labeled unpatriotic, un-American, communists, and traitors."

Stop the lies. Bring our troops home, that's the best way to "support our troops".

With Love and Kindness,

THE HATMAN